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Small businesses are vital to our mission, helping expand humanity’s presence in space & improve overall life on Earth. We’re excited to announce our latest small business grants, providing 365 proposals crucial early stage funding. Get to know them: https://t.co/YFo7FXEDWn https://t.co/aExbIeDieR

A very #HappyBirthday to astronaut Jim Lovell! Best known as the commander of Apollo 13, he also flew on Gemini VII, Gemini XII, and Apollo 8. You can read his oral history here: https://t.co/syav6Ry6pY https://t.co/i3JXuNqjpV

Today in 2003, we were getting ready to hang some airplanes at the Udvar-Hazy Center. 18 years later, we guess you could say the hangar looks a *bit* different now. https://t.co/QG6Sd3ZaET

What messages have we sent to aliens? https://t.co/qe42bjgjC0 https://t.co/jmqyNfOHXa

The plot thickens! In 2020, a team announced they may have detected phosphine, a gas linked to life, on Venus. Now, a reanalysis of 43-year-old data from @NASA's Pioneer Venus Multiprobe shows it may have found phosphine, too! Learn more here: https://t.co/JDCKOxklKO https://t.co/xgJOsxGdza

#OTD in 1655, astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Saturn’s moon Titan. Titan the only world in the solar system besides Earth that has standing bodies of liquid Images: Composite infrared view of Titan (left) & natural color view of Titan and Saturn (right) taken by Cassini https://t.co/YJljJkOeA7

The Grumman F6F Hellcat was conceived as an advanced version of the U.S. Navy's F4F Wildcat. The Museum’s Hellcat logged its last flight on this day in 1947, with a total of 430.2 flying hours. https://t.co/GnPJt9TXoR

How to spot aliens? Look at Earth, scientists propose. https://t.co/SzMdcUqMZn https://t.co/MB8jjq6uIi

The second photo ever taken of a black hole.

Frosty Sand Dunes of Mars from NASA

In 1903, Orville Wright made the first powered, controlled flight on Earth while his brother Wilbur cheered him on from the ground. Now @NASAPersevere's Ingenuity #MarsHelicopter is preparing to make the first power, controlled flight on another world while we cheer from Earth! https://t.co/9ruTtyKmKn

LEO broadband operator @OneWeb is on track to reach a key coverage goal this June after @Arianespace launched another 36 satellites. After two more launches, the network now partly owned by the British government will cover the entire United Kingdom https://t.co/dQxEBscWlE https://t.co/GXVox0R85f

Phobos From Mars Surface

Ngc 6814 through Hubble. <3

In 1960, Jerrie Cobb became the first woman to pass astronaut fitness tests as part of a privately-funded project. While Jerrie never achieved her dream of going to space, she was an advocate for women in spaceflight: https://t.co/Xbr890utV3 #BecauseOfHerStory #WomensHistoryMonth https://t.co/kNcvPIAUA1